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miércoles, 29 de marzo de 2017

The COPINH after Berta Cáceres: Indigenous Resistance in Honduras

In conversation with Marlene and Tomás, representatives of the COPINH and the Lenca people

(en español a continuación)

Photo by Pablo Dominguez Galbraith

In the wake of last weeks’ International Women’s Day marches around the world, we wish to share these interviews with Marlene Reyes Castillo and Tomás Gómez Membreño, the leaders of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) who are now at the forefront of the organization led by Berta Cáceres until her assassination on March 3, 2106. Berta Cáceres was and remains a global symbol of women’s and indigenous resistance to the dispossession, forced displacement, ecological destruction, and state violence inflicted by extractivist mega-projects around the world. MORE>>>

Rio Blanco to Juan Dumas

JUSTICE FOR BERTA

With Honduras - In English

2015 Goldman Prize winners

Berta Cáceres South and Central America 2015 Goldman Prize Recipient

In a country with growing socioeconomic inequality and human rights violations, Berta Cáceres rallied the indigenous Lenca people of Honduras and waged a grassroots campaign that successfully pressured the world’s largest dam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca Dam.http://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/berta-caceres/

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https://www.globalwitness.org/campaigns/environmental-activists/how-many-more/